*UPDATE May 10th: Here's a video interview that I did this morning for MSNBC : http://on.msnbc.com/juqWHz ---------- I shot this timelapse montage from late 2010 through early 2011. One year in the making.

With the intention of showing the duality between city and nature the timelapse, Dominic Boudreault created a beautiful montage of the urban landscape that is a thought-provoking piece. Locations include Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, New York and Chicago.

Human progress, to a large degree, has depended on the continual expansion of social networks, which enable faster sharing and shaping of ideas. And humanity’s greatest social innovation remains the city.

Urban networks depend on increasing interaction and collaboration...and it pays off. This article details the correlation between population size of a city and the earning potential of it's citizens.

This article details the correlation between population size of a city and the earning potential of it's citizens. Human progress, to a large degree, has depended on the continual expansion of social networks, which enable faster sharing and shaping of ideas. And humanity’s greatest social innovation remains the city. As our cities grow larger, the synapses that connect them—people with exceptional social skills—are becoming ever more essential to economic growth."The bars on this map show three types of job skills—analytic, social, and physical. The height of each bar is a measure of the average mix of skill within a given city’s labor force—the higher the bar, the more advanced the skill level within that city."

The fact that the article call them all city is an example of Urban Hierarchy, a theory discussed in our AP Human Geography Urban Unit. This article does not touch on any of the zone models we learned in our unit. The article is able to show through this map that the more analytic jobs there are in a cities Central Business District the higher the average pay the city has. (As evidenced by New York and Boston being much higher then say Albuquerque).

This is one of the most interesting maps I have seen for a while! This map tells a wonderful story of how globalized our economy and our population have become. As you view this map, consider the following questions:

Notice how many countries are strictly consumers of Starbucks and McDonald's products and not producers of some component of their product. Is this coincidental or is there a cultural and economic divide?

As McDonald's continues to expand its markets, what challenges do they face as a corporation? Does McDonald's have the potential, due to its economic prowess, to influcence policy in some of these emerging markets?

Not every place and every citizen has been affected by the recession the same way...

Not every place and every citizen has been affected by the recession the same way...

For the Unemployed, Geography Can Be Destiny by Richard Florida. This article highlights the uneven distribution of unemployment, and consequently, of job availability. Where is unemployment highest? How come? Getting a job isn't just about what you know and who you know, but where you know it.

We're often told that Detroit has been abandoned—but the metro area is stable, and addressing sprawl is still a challenge...

Population size and physical size...not always as correlated as one might assume in this age of urban sprawl. This details some of the difficulties in revitalizing abandoned sections of a city when the economic motive to expand outward is so easy.

This article investigates the possibilities of the progression of the city of Detroit, despite all the negative connotations. They show us the math behind it's decreasing populations along with it's past expansion, what's behind it and the urban sprawl of it all.

This is a great real-world example of uneven development, zones of abandonment, disamenity, and gentrification. It goes to show how all of these factors afflict with the city as a whole.

Census data showing population growth and shifts in the United States since 1990.

Non-Hispanic whites make up a dwindling share of the nation’s population, as their numbers drop in the Northeast and Midwest and grow slowly in the South and West.

A while back we looked at the changing demographics of black America, now it's time to look at the changes in white America. Why is this happening? What economic, cultural, demographic and political factors contribute to this pattern? What push factors and pull factors are at work?

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